For her album, Lisa surrounded herself with some of the top musicians in the Nashville area. She co-wrote many of the tunes with her guitar teacher and mentor, Regi Wooten. Regi was instrumental in Lisa's development as a fast playing, sweep picking soloist. For his part, Regi contributed some bass tracks on the disc as well, Joseph on keyboards and Victor on bass. Lisa also has help from Allman Brother's bassist Oteil Burbridge.
With musical influences ranging from Wes Montgomery to jimi Hendrix, Lisa's Song for a New Day offers a fusion of styles. "Night Ride," the first song written for the album, combines Lisa's smooth jazz vocals with shredding guitars. This first song and the folky "Home" are the two tracks that feature Lisa singing lead vocals. Her haunting background vocals weave in and out of other tunes such as her only cover tune, Freddi Hubbard's "Little Sunflower." "Blue-nana" was written for her grandmother whose passing allowed Lisa to buy the ProTools system used in recording the album. For the CD's finale, Lisa recorded her jam buddies for a hooky, high-energy track. "Jam@Lisa's" includes shredding from nashville hotshots Joseph Wooten, Adam Charney, Rocky Ganglani, Shane Roberts, Eric Vogel, Robert Provine, Johnathan Estes and Jeffrey Scott Wills. Lisa concludes with her own screaming, distorted improv. It's an ending that embodies lisa's own philosophy, "Surround yourself with great people and you'll elevate yourself to that level."
